IN CHARACTER
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Nelson Mandela
Played by Dave Chappelle
Nelson Mandela (1918–2013), the anti-apartheid leader who became President of South Africa. In Chappelle’s Show’s Nelson Mandela’s Boot Camp sketch, Dave Chappelle plays a wildly inaccurate version of him as a brutal boot-camp leader for…
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Nelson Mandela (1918–2013), the anti-apartheid leader who became President of South Africa. In Chappelle’s Show’s Nelson Mandela’s Boot Camp sketch, Dave Chappelle plays a wildly inaccurate version of him as a brutal boot-camp leader for troubled teens on a Sally Jessy Raphael episode.
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